The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-09
Farm and Garden Notes.

10 NOT allow your cattlc 10 orluh lloln
stagnant pool.
The focks and herds need wedding,
the same as fields.
A good season for ditching, draining
and digging wells.
The very best mine for farmer to in
vest in is his farm.
If your chickens have the diarrhea,
give them boiled sweet milk.
Rolling upland, with light or gray sub
soil, we'll drained, is the best for wheat.
Corn cobs make good fuel, and the
ashes of corn cobs contain stores OF
potash.
The assertion is made that potatoes
which grow nearest the surface are most
sub ject to rot.
Ducks can live with a bath once a
week, but they are aquatic enough to
enjoy dozen day.
According 10 DR.. T.. Fl. Hoskins the
tomato rot is getting to be about as bad
disease as the potato rot.
Be sure that your milch COWS have
enough pure, sweet water. Else the
typhoid fever may admonish you.
1t is claimed that swcet-cream butter,
though better favored, does not keep as
we'll as that from slightly acid cream.
It is charged that the English sparrow
protects the caterpillars by driving away
the native birds that would destroy
them.
Young turkeys should only be allowed
to run in fields where the grass is cut
short, as wet plumage seems to be fatal
to them.
Decaying vegetables should be thrown
on the manure pile, and not scattered
about the door yard to befoul the air in
hot dry time.
The farmer who sells the best and
keeps the poorest seeds and animals is on
the right road to the wrong place. Bet
ter ''bout face"
Dutch belted cattle are not as large az
Holsteins, but are said to rival the
Ayrshires in hardness, being well calcu.
lated for rough lands.
Cellars require care and attention to
preserve them sweet, pure and healthy.
Stagnant air, slops, or decaying vegeta-
bles will soon vitiate them.
Prominent apiarians advise extracting
the honey from partially filled sections
at the end of the season, and keeping the
sections for use the next season.
The use of soil on asparagus is con-
fined to keeping down of weeds during
cutting time. Asparagus is semi-marine
vegetable, but too much salt will lnJure
it.
There is a brisk demand and good
prices for feathers, eggs or flesh OF ducks
and geese, and these fowls are easily
raised. Some deem them more prohta'
bic than chickens.
When fodder corn is in bloom it con.
tains but thirteen per cent. of solid mat
ter. When the kernels begin to glaze it
has twenty five per cent. Don't cut 1t too
soon, whether for siloing or soiling.
If silo is built in hillside, the S9uth-
ern Cultiyator deems the following good
way to construct it. Plank up inside
with two-inch plank, then a course OF
tarred paper, then another plank on the
paper; all on the inside of the silo.
The Southern Culticator AYERS that
smoke is the great secret in the manage
ment of bees. If judicially applied before
a hive is opened and the frames are han,
died with care, there need not be any diff
Guilty in performing all necessary opera
tions in bee-kecping.
John M. Stahl, the well-known agri.
cultural writer, says: "Nincty-nine OF
every hundred farmers get their knowl-
edge of and skill in their particular work
by the picking-up process" He adds,
however, that very few farmers show
their sons or their laborers how to man.
age the details of farm work. ut is as
if an apprentice were put in the black
smith or carpenter shop and never
taught"